Trust & safety

Is The Currency Bazaar safe?

Yes — and the one rule that keeps you safe here, or anywhere: money only ever comes to you. Nobody — not us, not a buyer, not anyone claiming to be the RBI — will ever ask a seller to pay a fee to receive a payment.

How money works on this site

• Sellers pay for a listing plan, on our own checkout (Razorpay). That is the only thing we charge for.
• We take no commission on a sale. What a buyer pays you is yours.
• Buyers pay no fee to use the site, and nobody pays to "release", "clear" or "verify" a payment.

What we will never do

• Ask you for an OTP, a UPI PIN or a card number on a call or a message.
• Call or WhatsApp you offering to buy your coin — buyers reach sellers only through the chat on this website.
• Publish a seller's phone number, WhatsApp or email address.
• Promise that any coin or note is worth lakhs.

What protects you here

• The text of every chat message is checked for the fraud patterns — fee requests, off-site payment links, "RBI clearance" — and you are warned before you reply.
• Where we can match an item to our price data, its page shows the range similar items really sold for — so an offer twenty times higher stands out.
• Coins 100 or more years old carry a notice that they cannot legally be sent out of India — the exact lie an "export fee" scam depends on.

How the old-coin fraud works, step by step →

If somebody has asked you for money

• Stop, and pay nothing more. Call 1930, the national cyber-crime helpline, or report at cybercrime.gov.in — money reported in the first hours is far more likely to be frozen.
• Forward the message to PIB Fact Check (factcheck.pib.gov.in), the government’s own fact-check unit.
• If it used our name, tell us at support@thecurrencybazaar.com.

Who stands behind this site

Our official accounts — and how to spot a fake one → · Refund policy · About us